1893 - French colonies of French Guinea and Ivory Coast are formally established.

1900 - Britain signs treaty with Uganda to regulate government with British commissioner as adviser.

1919 - Nationalists riot in Cairo following deportation from Egypt of Said Zaghul Pasha.

1922 - Strikes break out in Johannesburg, South Africa, and martial law is declared.

1942 - Rangoon, Burma — now Yangon, Myanmar, falls to Japanese forces in World War II.

1946 - Italian women vote for the first time.

1948 - The body of the anti-communist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk, is found in the garden of Czernin Palace in Prague after he ‘mysteriously’ fell from a window, making it easier for the Communist Party to consolidate its control.

1949 - Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as “Axis Sally,” is convicted in Washington, D.C., of treason. She served 12 years in prison.

1998 - Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the 82-year-old former dictator of Chile, steps down from his position as army commander and is sworn in as senator for life under a provision written into the constitution by his regime.

2005 - After years of denials, Pakistan admits its top nuclear scientist sold centrifuges to Iran, though it sticks by its claim it knew nothing of his activities and insists he will not be turned over to another country for prosecution.

2007 - Yearlong talks on the future status of Kosovo between Serbia’s government and the disputed province’s pro-independence ethnic Albanian leadership end in deadlock with Serbia rejecting a U.N.-mediated proposal.

2013 — Hundreds of Christians clash with police across Pakistan, a day after a bomb planted by Muslim extremists burned dozens of homes owned by members of the minority religious group in retaliation for alleged insults against Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

2014 — Oscar Pistorius is vividly reminded at his murder trial in South Africa of the gruesome injuries he inflicted on his girlfriend when a pathologist describes how the Olympic athlete fatally shot her multiple times with bullets designed to inflict maximum damage.